Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-03
4 CHINESE DOCTOR.
PRESCRIPTION FROM A PIcTUA-
 ssouE CELESTIAL PHYSICIAN.

s,udying the Boatings of Both Pulses
 Medicine to Be Made Up and Taken
 , fin. wholesaIe--A Terrible Struggle.
 Benefits
 Here was. face to face with the Chimes toctor. whose advertisements were printed ID F,-Iisb. but who sadly complicated things by toIlins the Chinee. l told him that l hadn't learned Chinee yet. His mouth widsned lnto . erin. and he motiOned me tO a wooden-oot toned chair
 aChin Foo comee light vale, he said
 Chin Foo was the interpreter. He cams hack in ten minutes as happy and dapper looking Cbinaman as ever trottnd through Nott street. Until he came l amused myself critically Ogling this physician from the Flowery Kingdom. He was decidedly pictur es1ue. His tall figure was enveloped m long. loose robe of yellow figured Chimes silk. like the magician's garb in juvenile fairy tales. All but the extreme top ot nc hsnd was shaven smooth as c billiard ball from tbe crown depended a queue of raven hair. almost as long as the man was tall and braided like a German maidens locks From his upper lip dropped a black mustache. The ends were of extraordinary length But sur prising as the mustache looked it wasn't half as strange as his left hand. He had let the nails grow until they were fully an inch il length They were polished till they glistened The nails of bis other hand were pared close to the finger tips He leiSIrely Puifed cigarette of very strong black tobacco as hs sat oppo- site me against the background of brilliant curtains.
 aSee here, Foo" said I've got malaria I've had it a long time-a good deal longer thaa want it I'm told your doctor makes . speciality of knocking out malaria in single rOund-'
 @That's right" rejoined Foo, with & grln, slet the docter feel your pulse.
 Foo iabbered tO his fantastic principal m Chinese, and held out my hand to him IhE long-nailed Celestial tool; one of my wrists ir. either hand, pressed his fingers against the pulse. and studied the floor with bowed head in silence SO long that looked quiznngiy up at Chin Foo and requested an explanation
 What's the matter with your doctor, FooF I said. @Does the case stagger hint And what in thunder does he want to feel both any pulses forf
 ~Oh. that's the regular professional method in China the dapper little interpreter re- turned, smiling at my mystitication- Hes Crth.,lOx as orthodoxy in China can make hirL It's peculiarity of physicians in tho Flowery Kingdom to study the beat of both pulses"
 Thepig-tailod Celestial medicine man looked up from the floor and let go both my wrists as lively Chin Foo got To the end of his re- marks Then be reached for pencil and Ons of the great sheets of yellow paper that were piled high on a rcd table in front of him
 He Is going to build you a prescription now Chin Foo said admirinsly. Watch him. it'll interest you.r
 The prescription was a corker In size. The medicine man began at the upper right hand corner of the big yellow sheet with a jerky sort of scribble that built up curiously Chinese characters in columns of three so fast that could scarcely follow him with my eye. He built other columns under the first one until, after he had been at work something less than five minutes, the Chinese characters were piled up on top of each other in huge rows like the Navarro flats.
 That's all, cried Foo, as, with a sigh of relief, I saw the medicine man from Canton drop his pencil and shove over the yellow prescription You can get this put up down in Mott street, and nOwhere else. The doctors fee is e, please
 
 it up into a tea, and take hGli cupful at e dos, three times n day. Ealt a teacUp h rather small dose, toO, for you must re- ui-nber that tho Chinese take their medi- zinc by the wholesale when t;icy take any at ci. Their medicines are all aiiOpathic to a heroic extent so far as the consumption of remedies is cOncerned.n
 An hour later I found the Chinese phar- macy of Hong Wsh, Hee King S Co, ths solitary Chinese drug store of Gotham It was on the ground floor Of three-storJ buisIin,, on the south side Of Mott street, that loo..el very much like a little German grocery decked with no Ylscaris. The clerk LaiI his mammoth pipe carefully aside, with tnc punk still sticking in the holo in the side, glanced ut the prescription, and then started tO make it up. He drew handful of what resembled cinnamon sticks from one drawer, and laid them in big metal scoop This scoop was fastened on one end of a wooden rod that the clerk hald pOised in the air by string He hung a number of dangling weights on the other end of this astonishing pharmaceutical scale, until. after tedious delay. he finally struck a balance. Then be dropped the whole thing on the counter, and grabbed something else from another drawer. This hc weighed in the same tiresoms iasLion-
 There were fifteen or sixteen different and desperate looking drugs or herbs in that bis yellow prescription, and when that moon eyed MOngollan hnd weighed them all out separately he bundled them all together again in rcd paper in q package bigger than my head, and un assistant who sat in far of corner walked over to him, listened to him jab5er something in Chinese and said in very fair English: Dollar and halfr
 gave him the money, tucked the heroic dose under.my arm and rode home.
 When got there dumped the whole pile of medicine, sticks and powders and roots, into kettle of hot water and boiled them for an hour until they became tea, as Foo had directed It was a most villaiuOus and unin- viting decoctiOn when l lifted the lid at the expiration of the hour and poured out half a cupful Long wrestling with t;;s multitudin- ous ache, and pains and ills of life had made me familiar with varicl and terrible series of unsavory medical drinks, but never m my life had introduced into my poor stomach anything so horrible to the taste as the tea that came of boiling these Chinese drugs and herbs. By aniShty effort forced the dOsa down my throat, and kept isthsre by heroic and masterful struggle of the will The nightmare that made my broken slumbers weird and awful was but n tgihe compared with the internal commOtiOn that racked my system that night when was not wrestling with variegated terrors of the nightmare, and in the morning my liver felt as if John L. Sullivan had been using it all night as a sand bag. My spirits were dismal as a November foS, and felt a. fl to offer me food were to heap insult upon my misery.
 But a wholly unlocked for rise in my spirits followed the tremendous shaking up of my liver. The tea produced healthy stirnula- tiOn of the torpid organ that made me feel happy and regenera5ed for a whole week. And each time thereafter that made myself temporarily seasick by swallowing the awfr1 stuif the reaction was similarly grateful and inyigOrating. New York Sun.
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